Millicent Fawcett formed the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in 1897. The organisation used peaceful tactics to campaign, including non-violent demonstrations, petitions and the lobbying of MPs.

They shared the same aims, but had different methods, to the suffragettes – the more radical group led by Emmeline Pankhurst.

Dame Millicent died in 1929, a year after women were granted the vote on equal terms to men.